[Birdtalk] Finally...White-winged Crossbill images in Huntsville

[John CAVITT]

They can cross to either side.  But it isn't related to sex or age.  Birds of North America indicates that it crosses to the right 3 times more often than to the left.

Cheers
JFC 

>>> "MarJean Muhlestein" <wingsnwind at msn.com> 2/27/2009 1:37 PM >>>
Am I going "cross-eyed"? It looks like some of the birds (top) bills cross over to the right and some cross over to the left. Can anyone respond to this, or does it even matter. It would be nice if it were an ID point of male vs female, but we couldn't be so lucky could we. Nice pictures Paul, as usual.

MarJean
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Higgins<mailto:phigginscsc at yahoo.com> 
  To: birdtalk at utahbirds.org<mailto:birdtalk at utahbirds.org> 
  Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:47 PM
  Subject: [Birdtalk] Finally...White-winged Crossbill images in Huntsville


        It took some time but I finally got acceptable images of White-winged Crossbills in Huntsville, Weber County, Utah

        http://www.pbase.com/phiggins/crossbillwhitewinged<http://www.pbase.com/phiggins/crossbillwhitewinged>

       

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